I am a senior researcher atthe
Natural Interaction Group of
Microsoft Research (MSR). My work is focused on applying vision
techniques to enable new styles of human-computer interaction and
Augmented Reality.

During 2011-2014, I managed a group of researchers at MSR'seXtreamComputing
Group (XCG) in the areas of
Augmented Reality and Graphics, and prior to that, I founded the Virtual
Earth Research Lab, where we developed and shipped new innovations to the
service, such as the first Street View Technical Preview (Feb. 2006),
Street View Privacy, automatic matching of user images, text recovery in
the wild and more. During 2004-2005 I was a researcher at Microsoft
Research Asia (MSRA), working on issues such as video
completion, reconstruction of hair from images, and camera based
interaction.

Before joining Microsoft, I have
founded a couple of companies in the area of computer graphics,
including the design & development of the successful Photon-Paint
drawing and image retouching application for the Amiga computer, and
managing the software R&D at 3DV Systems LTD, developing active
real-timedepth
camerasfor
motion controlled gaming, later bought by Microsoft in 2008.

I obtained my BA, MS and PhD at the Hebrew University of
Jerusalem.

I
have
co-chaired the 19th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances
in Geographic Information Systems (ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2011), held a visiting lecture position at the school of
computer science,Interdisciplinary
Center,Herzelia,
Israel, and, on artistic side, I also has a background as a
book cover illustrator and acomicsstrip
artist.